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Flea - Der Floh



Author: iamazootycoon

Keywords: insect

Original Date Released at ZTABC: May 3, 2009
Updated January 8, 2026 by Epik with some additional changes by Jay. It was updated to have it not appear to move backwards, to add an English translation while still keeping the German translation, to adjust the German animal info for spacing and to not include things that are only meaningful on web sites, to have the young be fleas instead of bison, to change the Location from North America to Many, to have the preferred object tooltip appear for females and young, to have it not dislike itself, to have it not use sounds instead of using bison sounds, to give ZT more time to see if it was shot with a tranquilizer dart, and to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines.
Current flea.ztd dated 8 January 2026

File Size: 39 kb

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: The Flea animal for ZT is the first work by iamazootycoon. Its graphics are somewhat limited.

Note: Original zip name iamazootycoon_der_floh.zip

Click to Download flea.zip

Additional info:

flea.zip: flea.ztd (08 Jan 2026): ae598224.uca (29 Dec 2025)

Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):

ae598224.uca date: Mon Dec 29 03:21:56 2025
No Errors or Warnings to show.

Animal Type: AE598224

Flea

Fleas
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scientific classification
Subphylum: Tracheata (Trachea animals)
    (plus 81 other paragraphs)

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Grassland; Location: Many
Cost: 150; Crowd number: 30; Bash strength: 50
ZT Family: Fantastic Creature; ZT Genus: Bison
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 100
Preferred shelter: Small Stable
Preferred ZT shelter allowing any animal without hack: Small Concrete Shelter

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Broadleaf Bush, Monkey Puzzle Tree (DD)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Small Rock, Medium Rock

Specifically liked shelters:
Small Stable, Stable, Large Stable, Small Concrete Shelter, Concrete Shelter
Large Concrete Shelter, Small Wood Shelter, Wood Shelter, Large Wood Shelter

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-100 with 20 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 40 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 40 grid squares):
30 Grass, 10 Fresh Water

Foliage (for exhibit with 40 grid squares):
1 grid square should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Broadleaf Bush
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if the grid square contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 40 grid squares):
5 Small Rock, which is its most liked rock

New Years Trash Can in Gold, Black and Silver

ZooTek Phoenix

Click Site name to reach the download

Author: Cricket

Keywords: Trash cans, rubbish bins

Date Released: 1 January 2026
Current TrashCanNyrGoldBlackSilver_clh.ztd dated 29 December 2025

File Size: 9 kB

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description:  Decorate the New Years section of your zoo with this functional trash can for the convenience of your guests.  It's decorated in gold, black and silver to help celebrate the New Year.

Original trash can graphics done by pic (Partners in Crime aka Gem and Cricket).  Current adaptation by Cricket.

Additional info:

melzebra3.zip: melzebra3.ztd (14 Dec 2025): 78155057.uca (14 Dec 2025)

Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):

78155057.uca date: Sun Dec 14 23:17:02 2025
No Errors or Warnings to show.

Animal Type: 78155057

Melanistic Zebra

Melanistic zebra are very rare, even more rare than albino zebra. You can
recognize a melanistic zebra because their bodies produce far too much of the
pigment known as melanin which makes them much darker than your average zebra.

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Savannah; Location: Africa
Cost: 800; Crowd number: 30
ZT Family: Odd-Toed Ungulate; ZT Genus: Horse
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 90
Preferred shelter: Small Lean-to
Preferred ZT shelter allowing any animal without hack: Concrete Shelter
Animal can jump.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Acacia Caffra Tree, Thorn Acacia Tree, Eucalyptus Tree, Hard Quandong Tree
Red Gum Tree, Thorn Bush, Yellow Fever Tree, Baobab Tree, Umbrella Thorn Tree
Tall Grass, Grass Tree, Khejri Tree, Sigillaria Tree (DD)
Senegal Date Palm (ES)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Small Rock, Medium Rock, Medium Savannah Rock (DD)
Termite Mound (ES)

Specifically liked shelters:
Small Lean-to, Lean-to, Large Lean-to, Small Concrete Shelter
Concrete Shelter, Large Concrete Shelter, Small Wood Shelter, Wood Shelter
Large Wood Shelter

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 3-20 with 15 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 3 adults): 45 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 45 grid squares):
43 Savannah Grass, 2 Fresh Water

Foliage (for exhibit with 45 grid squares):
1 grid square should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Tall Grass
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if the grid square contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 45 grid squares):
1 Medium Savannah Rock (DD), which is its most liked rock

The ZT Spreadsheet Subset file ZTlistSm.csv was updated to include everything Jay has as of December 1, 2025. That ZTlistSm.csv file is currently dated December 11, 2025. That file is useful for the Zoo Object List program to show which ztd, zip, and rar files contain the downloads used in a zoo.

Note to designers: As a reminder, all versions of APE and APExp can choose APE IDs that were previously used. The ZT Spreadsheet Subset file is useful for designers to see if an APE ID, internal name, ".ztd" name, ".zip" name, ".wav" name, ".cfg" name, ".scn" name, ".lyt" name, or "unlock" name has been used before. Whenever I create something new, I always check that file to make sure those various names and APE ID have not been used before.

Updated by Jay to rename rhino.ztd to rhinoSignBySundance300.ztd so that it has a different ztd name than sparrow's rhino.ZTD. Other than the one ztd name change, all ztd files are still the ones from January 29, 2006.

Updated December 1, 2025 by Jay to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines, and to rename the ztd to prevent its name from conflicting with an ant statue by zoomaster3.

Kompatibilität: Alle Spielversionen / Compatibility: All Game Versions
Sprachen: Deutsch Standard und Englisch / Languages: German default, and English

Przewalski Horse Statue

Author: Bigcatkeeper
Keywords: animal statue, horses
Date Released: Jan 3 2004
Updated January 18, 2026 by fern to prevent this from crashing non-English versions of ZT, to include German messages (since they were available) for those with German versions of ZT while still including the English messages, to increase the esthetic values to more than ZT's bighorn statue since fern loves horses more than bighorn sheep, and to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines.
Current przewalski_horse_statue.ztd dated 18 January 2026
File Size: 24.38 kB
Compatibility: All Game Versions
Description: This wonderful Przewalski horse statue is a welcome addition to the Zoo Tek downloads section. Another nice job by Bigcatkeeper!
Click to Download PrzewalskiHorseStatue.zip


Tyc Res Elegant Statue

Author: Tycoon Resource
Originally Released: January 9, 2002 at Tycoon Resource
Updated: 21 June 2016 to fix the rotations and tidy file.
Updated: November 26, 2025 by Jay to move the configuration file to the typical location and to add German messages for those with German ZT since the translation was available.
Current TycResElegantStatue.ztd date: November 26, 2025
Zip size: 11.1 KB
Description: Decorate your zoo with this statue.
Diese Statue wird ihren Besuchern gefallen.
Click to Download TycResElegantStatue.zip (Tyc Res Elegant Statue)

updated 22 November 2025

Snapshot From ZT's Early Days

The date is February 6, 2002. The original ZT has been out for less than 4 months. The original ZT came with 47 animals, although 2 of those were considered "Easter Eggs": Triceratops and Unicorn. Another animal, Sable Antelope, came on a separate disc if ZT was bought in certain store chains. But there was a problem with many of those discs, so the Sable Antelope was made available at Microsoft's support site. It will be more than 3 months before ZT's first expansion pack, DD, is released. But 8 animals, a Fancy Building Pack, and a United States Flag were made available as free official downloads. The animals were Asian Black Bear, Asian Elephant, Blackbuck, Bongo, Magnet, Mountain Lion, Reindeer, and Yeti. Magnet is named after an actual polar bear that existed at that time, and was created based on results of a contest run in December 2001. There were a number of user made websites for ZT, including Ogresnet's version of Zoo Admin, Tycoon Resource, Zoo Tycoon Unlimited, and Zookeeper's version of Zookeeper's Lounge. Today in 2025, none of the early ZT websites exist in their original forms, although there are remnants of them. But back in 2002, there was a lot of sharing of information, from strategies to troubleshooting. The first version of APE (Animal Project Editor) was released soon after the original ZT was released, and the first update of APE was released a month later. APE is a tool that allows user designers to load their own animal and object graphics, and convert those graphics to ZT's format. APE was then and still is considered to be incomplete. But in 2002, there were no other tools. Some scenery and foliage were created. Some animals were created, although they were recolors and stat changes of ZT's animals. Although APE did not support making buildings directly, Martijn and Kerhop each managed to create a stand. These user created animals and objects were made available at the various user websites. In February 2002, Dawn created a zoo that is a snapshot of that time. The zoo is called ThisIsZooTopia.zoo. It uses all of the animals that came with the original ZT except the Triceratops, uses the Sable Antelope, uses all of the official downloads that were available at that time, uses 6 user made animals (by Gazza, James Clark, Jeremy Mulldune, kangoo, and 2 by Martijn), uses 8 user made scenery and foliage (from Tycoon Resource), and uses the first 2 user made buildings. The zoo has been running for more than 25 game years. The zoo has Magnet, but no other polar bears, although Magnet's exhibit is also suitable for polar bears. The zoo is not profitable; many exhibits could be made more suitable; some animals including all of the Black Leopards have died from old age. But the suitability for all exhibits is in the green and some animals continue to have births. So there is a lot of activity, and the zoo makes a great snapshot or time capsule of what was available in February 2002.

This post makes the zoo, user made objects, United States Flag, and Sable Antelope available. It does not make the official animal downloads or Fancy Building Pack available because those are included in CC. For the zoo, there were 2 versions available. One was from February 3, 2002, that is in September of the 25th game month. The version here is the February 6, 2002 version, that is in December of the 25th game month. The official United States Flag had problems where it wasn't in the correct positions when rotating the zoo. A number of people fixed that. I am including the version that is in the combined flag pack that is from ZKL (Zookeeper's Lounge). Tyc_Res_Snowy_Stuff_Pack.zip has a combined TycResSnowyStuffPackCombined.ztd and individual ztd's. Although the zoo does not use all of the objects in that zip, it is easier to use TycResSnowyStuffPackCombined.ztd rather than the individual ztd's. APE does things it shouldn't, and we now know a lot more than we did back then. So I updated all of the user made animals and objects. But some things I left as they were, such as icons. The animals expect the same types of exhibits that they would at that time. The messages for the Coca-Cola Machine are in LANG--ZKL.dll dated November 16, 2025 or newer. The messages for the Popcorn Stand are in LANG--ZTCDD.dll dated November 22, 2025 or newer. The ".dll" files go in the main ZT folder. ThisIsZooTopia.zoo would go in ZT's "Saved Games" folder. Since antelope.ztd (Sable Antelope) was an official animal, I recommend putting that in ZT's Updates folder. The only ".ztd" to use from Tyc_Res_Snowy_Stuff_Pack.zip is TycResSnowyStuffPackCombined.ztd. In CC, that should go in ZT's dlupdate folder. In CC, all of the ".ztd" files from the other ".zip" files should also go in the dlupdate folder.

Current ThisIsZooTopia.zoo date: February 6, 2002
Current ztd dates:
- antelope.ztd: November 16, 2001

- flagpack.ztd: November 20, 2025
- "Coca Cola Vending Machine.ztd": November 21, 2025
- caribbeanflamingo.ztd: November 22, 2025
- PopcornVendor.ztd: November 22, 2025
- amerigator.ztd: November 23, 2025
- ztu_redwolf.ztd: November 24, 2025
- 145260_ZooUnlimited_Waterbuffalo.ztd: November 25, 2025
- Emu.ztd: November 25, 2025
- Westgrey-beta1.ztd: November 25, 2025
- 129726_TycResBrasslamp.ztd: November 26, 2025
- 134957_TycResClockPost.ztd: November 26, 2025
- tycres_gaslamp.ztd: November 26, 2025
- TycResElegantStatue.ztd: November 26, 2025
- TycResSnowyStuffPackCombined.ztd (and the 11 accompanying Singles): November 26, 2025

Zip sizes:
- 129726_TycResBrasslamp.zip: 7.94 KB
- 134957_TycResClockPost.zip: 7.25 KB
- amerigator.zip: 19.9 KB
- antelope.zip: 1.38 MB
- caribbean.zip: 531 KB
- emu.zip: 1.30 MB
- flagpack.zip: 697 KB
- greykang.zip: 1.06 MB
- PopcornVendor.zip: 48.3 KB
- Tyc_Res_Snowy_Stuff_Pack.zip: 421 KB
- tycres_gaslamp.zip: 7.28 KB
- TycResElegantStatue.zip: 11.1 KB
- waterbuf.zip: 1.26 MB
- zootopia.zip: 325 KB
- ztu_redwolf.zip: 1.23 MB
- ztu-coca-cola-vending-machine.zip: 53.0 KB

Download zootopia.zip (ThisIsZooTopia.zoo) here.

Download antelope.zip (Sable Antelope) here.

Download ztu-coca-cola-vending-machine.zip (Coca Cola Machine) here.
Download PopcornVendor.zip (Popcorn Stand) here.

Download amerigator.zip (American Alligator) here.
Download caribbean.zip (Caribbean Flamingo) here.
Download emu.zip (Emu) here.
Download greykang.zip (Western Grey Kangaroo) here.
Download waterbuf.zip (Water Buffalo) here.
Download ztu_redwolf.zip (Red Wolf) here.

Download flagpack.zip (United States Flag and 21 others not used by this zoo) here.
Download 129726_TycResBrasslamp.zip (Tycoon Resource Brass Lamp) here.
Download 134957_TycResClockPost.zip (Tyc Res Clock Post) here.
Download tycres_gaslamp.zip (Tyc Res Gas lamp) here.
Download TycResElegantStatue.zip (Tyc Res Elegant Statue) here.

Download Tyc_Res_Snowy_Stuff_Pack.zip (Tyc Res Snowy Dolphin Topiary, Tyc Res Snowy Llama Topiary, Tyc Res Snowy Mulberry Tree, Tyc Res Snowy Pine, and 7 others not used by this zoo) here.